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Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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Post by Semaphor »

anotheryou wrote: post #37
Semaphor wrote: post #25

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I use keypiranha as well. Great tool! > it's a pity they don't use the 100 times faster WizFile 100 times faster? Everything is instant for me, never had any kind of delay. What things are slow enough with it that something else could be faster?

Indexing. Everything traverses your folders to find everything and make an index from that, WizFile reads this from some hard drive tables directly. So the first indexing with everything takes maybe 30 minutes or more (I actually have no Idea how long it took exactly..) and wizfile is done in under a minute. With slower drives (e.g. external USB2) the difference should be even more dramatic. The only downside appart…

Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks. That means for me everything is the better tool (I sometimes use regex and I never need to index usb drives)

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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Post by Mirioron »

hb0ss wrote: post #32
rsrx wrote: post #28

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I prefer to use keyboard instead mouse.

But if you pin them on the taskbar you can launch them with win + x in the order you have pinned them. I’m assuming that’s why the other person asked.

And if the application is already running you can use the hotkey to bring that window into focus.

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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Post by dragonwriter »

rjknight wrote: post #5

I wonder if the name is inspired by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)

Probably. Or possibly by Windows Chi-Rho (the same source of the name of the city “Cairo”), which is more popularly known by the English names of those letters, which is often looked at as the peak of Windows UX with later iterations as regressions (though sometimes Windows 7 gets that honor.)

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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Post by archie2 »

Has anyone actually tried this? I'm curious but if I don't like it and uninstall it I'm afraid of weird glitchy behaviors and a broken shell and I really don't feel like reinstalling Windows right now.

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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Post by thunderbong »

stinos wrote: post #48
nmg wrote: post #41

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This part of the description really hit home: "Never again waste time hunting for applications in poorly organized menus." The Windows Start menu is terrible, and it's the most iconic part of MS Windows, or it has been to me since the "Start me up" campaign for W95 (one of the best tech ad campaigns not made by Apple in my opinion). And now it is a place where I struggle to activate (?!) the scrollbar. It's an alphab…

but I can't tap a keyboard letter to jump down the list Works for me: Win key, down arrow to get into list (otherwise it will search everything), typing a letter jumps to that letter. Bonus tip, sometimes useful: Ctrl+arrows resizes start menu. Candy Crush Slot Machine Simular Redux That sucks, yes, but right-click + uninstall seems to get rid of it once and for all.

That Ctl+arrows key to resize the Start Menu I didn't know about. Thanks!

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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Post by gchamonlive »

archie2 wrote: post #54

Has anyone actually tried this? I'm curious but if I don't like it and uninstall it I'm afraid of weird glitchy behaviors and a broken shell and I really don't feel like reinstalling Windows right now.

No glitches for me at the moment. You can read the project's issue page on github to check if there are glitches like those. You can disable Cairo starting automatically and go back to default windows desktop shell
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